Chapter 24: A Match Made in Heaven, Perfect Together on Earth

"Are you serious? I checked online—there are no more than ten people with the same name as me... How could there be so many?" Lin Shenlu asked, bewildered.

"Sir... are you playing along now? I meant you guys pretending to be someone else..." the young girl replied, folding her arms.

Lin Shenlu truly felt wronged.

"What's so special about my name that someone would want to impersonate me? It's not like I'm Andy Lau!" Lin Shenlu asked curiously.

"Come on... don't you know what's going on? Our boss is a real beauty and a huge online influencer with millions of fans. Ever since she posted a fortune-telling video saying her destined soulmate's name was Lin Shenlu, every so often some guy shows up claiming to be Lin Shenlu... Sir, are you still insisting that's really your name?" The girl laughed as she spoke.

With no other option, Lin Shenlu pulled out his ID and handed it to her.

"Look, see for yourself. If I'm not called this, then what am I called?" Lin Shenlu said helplessly.

The young woman took his ID and examined it closely.

Her expression changed drastically.

"Boss! Lin Shenlu is really here... This time it's for real!" she shouted upstairs.

Now Lin Shenlu was truly curious.

Was his name really that magical?

"Sir—oh, I mean, Mr. Lin—please come in!" The young woman quickly invited him inside, still eyeing his ID with curiosity, thinking to herself that it probably wasn't fake.

After Lin Shenlu sat down, he even swiped his ID by the computer at the front desk.

With a beep, the machine confirmed the ID was genuine.

"You probably don't know, but our boss is a popular beauty vlogger on TikTok, the owner of Blue Whale Guesthouse... Her real surname is Hai. ‘When the sea turns blue, you see whales; when the forest grows deep, you see deer.’ Our boss once said a fortune-teller told her her destined soulmate would have the name Lin Shenlu. It’s fate, only he hasn’t shown up all these years... Uh, Mr. Lin, you didn’t just change your name, did you?" The young woman asked tentatively.

Lin Shenlu replied with a wry smile, "I've had this name for twenty-six years, you can rest assured. But now I'm curious—your boss is really named Blue Whale?"

"Of course! You can look it up online. Her pinned video is of her showing her ID, and it has over two million likes!" the girl said with a grin.

With nothing better to do, Lin Shenlu opened TikTok and searched for the name Blue Whale.

Sure enough, among the many accounts, the one with 3.35 million followers was Blue Whale Guesthouse—Blue Whale.

The profile picture was of a very pure and beautiful young woman.

Her hair fell softly to her shoulders, sleek and black, with gentle, feminine features. Her clear eyes held a hint of dreamy blue, her curved brows and long, fluttering lashes accentuated her fair, flawless skin, tinged with a delicate pink. Her lips were petal-like and alluring.

In the photo, Blue Whale seemed to have suddenly thought of something, smiling at the camera, her eyes sparkling with life.

He clicked on a video at random.

Lin Shenlu froze.

This...

The scene was so familiar.

It was the girl in the white dress on the swing at the rooftop just now.

In the sunlight, her soft, dark hair danced in the breeze. When she turned, her eyes were filled with emotion, her cheeks adorned with dimples as mysterious as mist.

She swayed on a swing covered in blossoms.

Her skin was as delicate as snow, her frame slender yet impossibly alluring, like a water goddess come to life.

Lin Shenlu thought to himself...

In this video, Blue Whale sits alone on the swing. Bathed in sunlight, her beauty is as lustrous as jade, like a new moon in the clouds, like snow piled on blossoming trees, her posture elegant and charming, her grace gentle and captivating—a beauty beyond words, incomparable in her delicacy.

Scrolling up, he finally found the pinned video with two million likes that the girl had mentioned.

Sure enough, in the video, her slender white hand produced an ID card with the name Blue Whale clearly written on it.

The name itself was striking at first glance.

Combined with her looks and bearing, she truly lived up to the image of a blue whale—graceful and rare, a beauty of nine out of ten.

Among all the girls Lin Shenlu had met, she was among the very few he would rate so highly.

The last video was pinned at the top.

Blue Whale, facing a bouquet of flowers, her figure slender, long hair cascading down her back, tied gently with a pink ribbon. In her white dress, surrounded by flowers, she shone with dazzling brilliance, as if veiled in clouds and mist—truly otherworldly.

As the camera turned, it revealed her age—just over twenty, skin fairer than snow, exquisite and peerless, her beauty too striking to look at directly.

"This was the first time our boss went viral. It was three years ago—she was only twenty-one then..." the young woman said, smiling as she watched Lin Shenlu's phone.

As they spoke, Lin Shenlu quietly put his phone away.

Just as the young woman had been surprised to meet a real Lin Shenlu, Lin Shenlu was equally amazed—there really was a woman in the world named Blue Whale.

It felt just like the moment when the fortune-teller told Blue Whale her destined partner would be named Lin Shenlu.

Lin Shenlu realized that somewhere in this world, there was a woman whose name matched his perfectly... It was almost unbelievable.

But... none of this really mattered anymore.

Even if fate had decreed it, that wasn't everything.

Because not long ago, he had already chosen to fall in love with An Muxi.

He had chosen to pursue An Muxi.

He had chosen to wait quietly for her.

To wait until the day she was willing to look back.

Lin Shenlu smiled faintly.

There’s no such thing as a love arranged by fate; even love at first sight is a rare blessing.

What’s so special about a name? Are Zhang San and Li Si a match made in heaven?

Does Jane Wei have to be with Shao Yang?

If Zhang Yixi can sleep with so many, why can’t there be a Shen Man?

Aren’t Chen Wan’an and Lin Qingchen a perfect match by name alone?

So, for himself and Blue Whale, it was nothing but coincidence.

Lin Shenlu blinked, slid his ID back into his pocket.

“So, can you get me a room now?” he asked the girl with a smile.

“Of course,” she replied, sneaking a glance at Lin Shenlu’s face beneath his sunglasses.

He was quite handsome—just her boss’s type.

At least, not bad at all.

But what did he do for a living?

“Mr. Lin, what do you do for work?” the girl asked curiously.

Lin Shenlu slowly took off his sunglasses.

This young woman really was talkative.

“I’m a professional sweat therapist... I specialize in making people perspire,” Lin Shenlu said calmly.

“Huh? What kind of job is that?” the girl muttered in confusion.

She’d met quite a few guests from the Northeast before, she’d heard their bathhouses had bath attendants, and there were saunas for sweating... Could it be the same thing?

Was this handsome guy in front of her the one who turned on the steam valves in the sauna?